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Void's Angels

from Elysian Road by Caleb M. Powers

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The first track on the album and the third that I composed! “Void’s Angels” is named for an off-hand comment that was made during the first episode of Elysian Road, when the players were trying to figure out what to name their crew. “Void’s Angels” was suggested based off the name of the crew’s spaceship—Void’s Grace. Of course, Tyl’s player immediately countered with the suggestion “Tyl’s Angels” instead. I don’t think we ever actually decided on an official name for the crew, but I still love this original suggestion, so I thought
I’d title the track thus.

Musically, this track has two themes running counterpoint to each other throughout—the Void’s Grace theme, which signifies both the ship and the crew as a whole, as well as Tyl’s theme, which is fitting since he’s kinda the captain. Both themes are most prominently presented with mid and high brass instruments, since I tried to go for a very heroic tone to start off the album and introduce the characters. Tyl’s themes are also underscored and presented with an orchestral-based computer-generated instrument called “Space Steel” (the metallic pluck you hear in the middle and end of the track) as well as a solo operatist, to give a bit of weight of history to his character’s thematic introduction.

Of course, this is a science-fiction album, so how else to start it off then with spaceship sounds? The beginning of the track consists of various sound effects, supposedly from Void’s Grace powering up and swooping by the proverbial camera. We then are intro-duced to a grand piano and a reverse winds effect that I used to get the feeling of being in space. The first episode of Elysian Road starts in an asteroid belt, traveling from one place to another, and then picking up a signal from a ship under attack by pirates, which the crew quickly decides to rescue. That’s where the first section of Tyl’s theme comes in, with the “Space Steel” instrument, strings, and a solo operatist bringing us a look into his haunted past, where his wife died during an attack from pirates, something Tyl’s never quite got over. After a slow build-up, we’re hit with the latter section of the track—an intense, driving electronic beat with the weight of an orchestra and the solo operatist behind it. It’s basically my representation of the “gearing up” montage in the first episode
of Elysian Road, where the characters all prepare to save the derelict pharmaceutical ship from the pirate threat. Littered throughout with the Void’s Grace theme, and then devolving into a counterpoint between that theme and Tyl’s theme, the section then ends with another iteration of Tyl’s theme in its hauntingly sad presentation from earlier, reminding us of the things still on Tyl’s mind as the crew heads out to rescue innocents from the pirates that Tyl still so very hates.

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from Elysian Road, released June 16, 2019

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Caleb M. Powers Moscow, Idaho

I'm one of those creative people you've been warned about.

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